have been turning once again to work on the detail cut outs for my book of female monsters. The Lioness was based upon based upon a real artifact - a three thousand year old proto-Elamite stone carving that I had studied some years ago. In the illustration for my poem I rather crudely added legs that were not there in the original sculpture. It was practically sacrilegious - like adding arms on the Venus De Milo or a head on the Winged Victory. Not leaving well enough alone in my revision of the focal detail I added tattoos to the statue’s folded fists. I hope that there was some logic in all of this.
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